Short Riddles

Short riddles with answers are most often just one or two sentences long. But don’t be fooled, these short riddles could be very tricky as well.

Until I Am Measured, I Am Not Known

Until I am measured, I am not known. Yet how you miss me when I have flown. What am I?

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I fasten it and it walks. I unfasten it and it stops. What is it?

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What is thrown to both kings and beggars?

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Take one out and scratch my head, I am now black but once was red. What am I?

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Many have heard me but nobody has seen me and I will not speak back until spoken to. What am I?

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